On 8 Sep, 14:50, "Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
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My take would be to nail them - sometimes nails are better than
screws, and this is one of them. *You can pry up nailed floorboards
much faster than unscrewing all the screws you would use.

And they often split. Especially if nailed with cut nails.

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I don't think I've ever split a board which hasn't already had a split
in it - and I've relaid the floors in most of the rooms in my house,
which is Victorian, i.e. nailed with rusty old cut brads which have
been there for over a century. As long as you ease the end of the
board up with care to start with, once you have got it up enough to
get a pry bar under both edges, they either pop out, or pop through.

With 100+ year old screws, you'd be looking at a new floor.